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DFA NYU

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human centered design, social innovation, having a social impact on our community, multidisciplinary collaboration, putting in practice what we learnt in the classroom

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New York University

We started in 2011 as the first openIDEO student chapter @NYU, then became Design Tinkering and have in May 2015 proudly joined the Design for America network, becoming Design for America of NYU (DFA NYU). We are based out of the School of Engineering at NYU, but open to all NYU schools, and we love collaborating with people from all over. Our members all have their individual profiles on OpenIdeo but we thought we needed one to post as a club. So here we are !

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Hi Bertha JimenezThank you for the comment.Jon is our friend, and we are working along with sharemeals.org from almost the time that Project Avocado was conceited. We had realized that both ShareMeals and Project Avocado have similar goals.We have received a lot of insights from their work, and we will continue working together.

Hi Bertha JimenezThank you for the comment.Jon is our friend, and we are working along with sharemeals.org from almost the time that Project Avocado was conceited. We had realized that both ShareMeals and Project Avocado have similar goals.We have received a lot of insights from their work, and we will continue working together.

Hello Bettina FliegelThank you for your comment.That is true that food insecurity is a very big issue with students. We at DFA NYU have been working along with sharemeals.org to help students deal with it.I like the idea of food being present around the study groups. In fact, we are trying to come up with solutions for this by working on a prototype in a student lounge where students actually go to study. Here we have received to have food.From our previous prototype (the one entioned in this post), we have learnt that students want to show their appreciation. So we are coming up with a way to do that through sending emails.I also like the ideas involving recipes, but there is a good chance that it might not work, because many students do not cook. But nevertheless, we can try to implement it because there is a good number of students who like to cook or prefer having home-cooked meals.

We will be trying our best to make sure that this prototype works, and hopefully, we might be able to implement it across the university (and other places, in the near future)